Cap. 56 Art. 5The Director shall not receive notes not drawn up according to law.

(1) The Director shall not receive any note for the registration of any cause of preference among creditors, or any note of reference or any note for the enrolment of an act unless such note is drawn up according to law.

(2) Every note for the registration of any cause of preference among creditors shall be drawn up according to Form A in the Second Schedule hereto and any note of reference to the same shall be drawn up according to Form B in the said Schedule.

(3) A note for the enrolment of an Act or for the registration of a cause of preference and any note of reference to the same shall be typewritten or printed in dark, clear, easily legible and indelible characters, on paper authorized by the Director; and there shall be deposited at the Public Registry, together with the note, a clear copy thereof.

(4) No note, whether for registration or enrolment, shall contain any figures or numbers which have not at least in the first instance, been written out in words, and no correction shall be made in any such note.

(5) The person who signs any note or copy referred to in this article shall, next to his signature, print, stamp or write in clearly legible letters, and in case of handwriting in block letters, his name and surname, and his professional capacity or, in the appropriate case, his capacity of creditor or debtor.

Provided that this shall be without prejudice to the provision of the said article as to the insertion in the note of other individual particulars capable of establishing the identity.